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narrowing

/nar-oh/US // ˈnær oʊ //UK // (ˈnærəʊ) //

狭窄化,缩小,狭窄的,缩窄

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    nar·row·er, nar·row·est.

    • : of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
    • : limited in extent or space; affording little room: narrow quarters.
    • : limited in range or scope: a narrow sampling of public opinion.
    • : lacking breadth of view or sympathy, as persons, the mind, or ideas: a narrow man, knowing only his professional specialty; a narrow mind.
    • : with little margin to spare; barely adequate or successful; close: a narrow escape.
    • : careful, thorough, or minute, as a scrutiny, search, or inquiry.
    • : limited in amount; small; meager: narrow resources.
    • : straitened; impoverished: narrow circumstances.
    • : New England. stingy or parsimonious.
    • : Phonetics. articulated with the tongue laterally constricted, as the ee of beet, the oo of boot, etc.; tense.Compare lax. utilizing a unique symbol for each phoneme and whatever supplementary diacritics are needed to indicate its subphonemic varieties.Compare broad.
    • : proportionately rich in protein.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to decrease in width or breadth: This is where the road narrows.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to make narrower.
    • : to limit or restrict: to narrow an area of search; to narrow down a contest to three competitors.
    • : to make narrow-minded: Living in that village has narrowed him.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a narrow part, place, or thing.
    • : a narrow part of a valley, passage, or road.
    • : narrows, a narrow part of a strait, river, ocean current, etc.
    • : The Narrows, a narrow strait from upper to lower New York Bay, between Staten Island and Long Island. 2 miles long; 1 mile wide.

Phrases

  • narrow escape
  • straight and narrow

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The wind-whipped blaze’s precise extent and the number of casualties, as people ran through narrow streets to escape, can only be guessed.

  • In a mosaic, only certain combinations of these two parameters work, forming a narrow swath of shapes that could possibly result from something falling apart.

  • On the upper floors, narrow corridors make it easy to bump into people on their way out of a side gallery.

  • To narrow it down, Tuchman and her co-authors focused on the top 500 brands as measured by dollar sales.

  • Whatever kind you get, an extender will narrow the space between your skin and the top of your mask.

  • Then a slowing down, the sound narrowing from a dark mass to a single line.

  • This strain of enterovirus seems unusually provocative in irritating lower airways, thereby causing airway narrowing.

  • The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.

  • A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 295 people aboard crashed and suspicion is narrowing on pro-Russian separatists.

  • Perhaps most importantly, normalizing marriage is a narrowing, rather than an expanding, of sexual possibility.

  • He missed Flora's gay letter of gossip, and looked with narrowing lids at the pile of newspapers.

  • Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.

  • Unlike his pony prototypes, his was a lengthy, arched neck, held high from narrowing withers and a short back.

  • And as the narrowing process progressed, she said, the exhausting or vampire quality grew and grew.

  • Opportunities were narrowing down rapidly—the canoe was perilously close, and so many of his bullets went astray.